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Petrophile media R.Br.

Reference
Suppl.Prodr.Fl.Nov.Holl. 5 (1830)
Conservation Code
Not threatened
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Low spreading or erect, non-lignotuberous shrub, (0.05-)0.1-0.6(-1) m high. Fl. yellow-cream, Aug to Dec. White, grey or yellow sand, laterite, sandy clay. Sandplains, lateritic ridges, winter-wet flats.

Grazyna Paczkowska, Descriptive Catalogue, 22 August 1995
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Scientific Description

Shrubs, 0.5-1 m high; branchlets glabrous. Leaves alternate, 45-160 mm long, 1-1.5 mm wide, glabrous; lamina terete, entire, straight or curved, smooth, apex acute, 0.8-1 mm long. Inflorescences not viscid, cream or yellow. Perianth 17-22 mm long, hairy, the limb apex hairy all over; pistil 18-23 mm long; pollen presenter not fusiform, hairy, 3.8-6 mm long, the brush 2.3-3.7 mm long. Cone with persistent scales, 10-25 mm long. Flowers in August, September, October, November or December. Occurs in the South-west (SW) Botanical Province(s), in the Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Jarrah Forest (JF), Mallee (MAL) or Esperance Plains (ESP) IBRA subregion(s).

C. Hollister and K.R. Thiele, 19 January 2024

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Avon Wheatbelt, Esperance Plains, Jarrah Forest, Mallee.
IBRA Subregions
Fitzgerald, Katanning, Northern Jarrah Forest, Southern Jarrah Forest, Western Mallee.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Albany, Boyup Brook, Broomehill-Tambellup, Cranbrook, Denmark, Gnowangerup, Jerramungup, Katanning, Kent, Kojonup, Plantagenet, Ravensthorpe, West Arthur, Wongan-Ballidu, Woodanilling.